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...south. When the votes were counted, B.G. was in as much trouble as ever. His Mapai had increased its popular vote from 35 to 37%, but had emerged with the same 46 seats. The Orthodox religious bloc had lost ground-from 16 to 14 seats. The pro-Soviet Mapam, formerly Israel's No. 2 party, dropped from 19 seats to 15. But B.G. had a new antagonist: into second place, increasing their seats from seven to 20, went the right-of-center General Zionists...
...When David Ben-Gurion became Israel's first Prime Minister, in 1949, his mildly socialistic Mapai Party had less than a majority in the Knesset (Parliament). To form a government, he had a choice: coalition with the pro-Soviet Mapam, or with a bloc of four orthodox religious parties...
...Mapai's important rival, Mapam (United Workers Party), which claims to be nonCommunist, although its platform sounds like Radio Moscow: "We are against bases and concessions to imperialism; we are for an alliance of the progressive forces headed by Russia...